Stuff I'm reading
Oct. 28th, 2005 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
minxyFor a good time, read Thirst by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
resonant8, then go comment here. John/Rodney, PG-13 or R, something like that. One of the best Rodney POVs I've seen yet, very good thought processes for him. Yum for first time fics. *snicker*
And, incredible Jack/Daniel friendship fic. Echoes of Autumn bymoonshayde. Very nice. And good to read because I'm still teasing through the teamficathon assignment story idea and it's hard to switch mindsets into gen when you've been so 'shippily/slashily oriented.
Firefly/Alias crossover byvaznetti. Oh, WIP in shorts. Sadly, am now committed to the WIP and must watch carefully. Is too short, though! Too short now! I want a Sark-pet
Autumn bywisdomeagle. Firefly, gen. Oh. Oh, so gorgeous. It's... EVERYONE SHOULD GO READ THIS. It's lovely, and it's appropriate for Halloween. Oooh! Here's a line: "Somewhere, some calendar marks today as All-Hallows Eve, and the ghosts of all their old battles float to the ground into a leaf-pile of memories."
Fruition (the quince fic) by lyrstzha. More Firefly goodness. Simon/Mal, for like, half a SECOND *starts, then glares at plot bunny who bounced energetically forward*. Naw, it was cute little Firefly fluff. "...Your brother know you’re up here pontificatin’ on food?" Hee! Quince.
I have a thought on my fandoms and whether I'll read fanfic in them.
My first obsession was Star Trek. I probably would have read fanfic, had I known about it, but Trekkers as a group intimidated, and I was a pre and teenager, which means that the person I was bears very little resemblance to the person I am, and therefore we shall dismiss any teenager fandoms as not relevant. Besides, I was a rabid shipper.
Anyway, my primary fanfic fandom is SG-1. Not quite as into Atlantis because I haven't had the time to get invested in a new show. Watch QAF, but again with the lack of time haven't made it all the way through the series and therefore not so much with the fanfic.
So then there are the secondary fandoms: Alias and Firefly and Harry Potter. Have read a smattering of fics in each, but am getting more interested in the Firefly now. I'll also read some crossovers or fics in fandoms I am not invested in, like Andromeda or Farscape, where I have a basic understanding of the characters, behaviors and premise, or the Magnificent 7, where I know nothing except there are 7 guys and the slash is rampant and sometimesdelphia2000 points out teh p0rn.
So here's my feeling, based on something I read in a meta somewhere: Stargate as a series underwhelms it's fans. Commentaries will frequently hold comments about what they've gotten away with or canon they themselves can't rationalize... they are getting by. But they have this premise, omg, that's so wonderful. And they have characters with fantastic personalities and relationships and actors behind them.
At this point I lump RDA in with the writers and producers in having a great premise and not so much with the living up to potential, but see? I love Jack. In fanfic. On screen I find him wanting, and not in the good slashy sense. The man's been phoning it in for years.
Alias and Firefly and Harry Potter? With the exception of the HP films, none of them underestimate their fans. Most throw in more information than you can possibly process and have such pride in what they're doing that the entertainment is genuinely intellectual, and I would laugh if anyone said that about SG-1 at this point.
But Firefly is no longer the weekly crack it could have been had Fox not cancelled it. We get incredible and satisfying films (plural, we hope) but long wastelands in between. So I begin to read fanfic, not because I think we fans can do it better, but just because we have to fill the void somehow. But Alias and HP I do not feel drawn to the fics, though I will read them if they come highly enough recommended or I adore the author's other work. I've been trained to wait for hiatus to be over, or to double or to deal with Jennifer Garner's busy film shooting schedule. Or wait years between books with a movie or two involving adorable little moppets running about in robes. I'm prepared, I'm okay with the agreement.
Stargate sometimes hits the homerun with a show once or twice a season, but you really never know on a week to week basis. Plus, with the aforementioned lack of time, I tend to watch them when I happen to stumble across a rerun, then for an hour I fall in, then I tumble out on the otherside, already having moved on in my brain to whatever else I should have done in that hour (or 44 minutes or whatever) and sometimes grateful for the brain candy that can be so easily dismissed until you need a little romance or love or angst or action or humor, and then you find a fic that fits the bill in that moment.
I think. I think that's why my fandoms sort themselves as they do. Someone must do right by Sam and Daniel and Jack and Teal'c and Mitchell and Janet, and I'm not so in love with canon that I think the show's official writers have any right to claiming emminent domain. Fanon is not canon, but Gods, sometimes I wish...
And that is my story, and my ode to the beauteous writers of SG-1. How I love thee. How I love thy stories. How I sometimes wish the Bridge Studio people would hire you full time...
Yes. Stopping now. *G*
resonant8, then go comment here. John/Rodney, PG-13 or R, something like that. One of the best Rodney POVs I've seen yet, very good thought processes for him. Yum for first time fics. *snicker*And, incredible Jack/Daniel friendship fic. Echoes of Autumn by
moonshayde. Very nice. And good to read because I'm still teasing through the teamficathon assignment story idea and it's hard to switch mindsets into gen when you've been so 'shippily/slashily oriented.Firefly/Alias crossover by
vaznetti. Oh, WIP in shorts. Sadly, am now committed to the WIP and must watch carefully. Is too short, though! Too short now! I want a Sark-petAutumn by
wisdomeagle. Firefly, gen. Oh. Oh, so gorgeous. It's... EVERYONE SHOULD GO READ THIS. It's lovely, and it's appropriate for Halloween. Oooh! Here's a line: "Somewhere, some calendar marks today as All-Hallows Eve, and the ghosts of all their old battles float to the ground into a leaf-pile of memories."Fruition (the quince fic) by lyrstzha. More Firefly goodness. Simon/Mal, for like, half a SECOND *starts, then glares at plot bunny who bounced energetically forward*. Naw, it was cute little Firefly fluff. "...Your brother know you’re up here pontificatin’ on food?" Hee! Quince.
I have a thought on my fandoms and whether I'll read fanfic in them.
My first obsession was Star Trek. I probably would have read fanfic, had I known about it, but Trekkers as a group intimidated, and I was a pre and teenager, which means that the person I was bears very little resemblance to the person I am, and therefore we shall dismiss any teenager fandoms as not relevant. Besides, I was a rabid shipper.
Anyway, my primary fanfic fandom is SG-1. Not quite as into Atlantis because I haven't had the time to get invested in a new show. Watch QAF, but again with the lack of time haven't made it all the way through the series and therefore not so much with the fanfic.
So then there are the secondary fandoms: Alias and Firefly and Harry Potter. Have read a smattering of fics in each, but am getting more interested in the Firefly now. I'll also read some crossovers or fics in fandoms I am not invested in, like Andromeda or Farscape, where I have a basic understanding of the characters, behaviors and premise, or the Magnificent 7, where I know nothing except there are 7 guys and the slash is rampant and sometimes
delphia2000 points out teh p0rn.So here's my feeling, based on something I read in a meta somewhere: Stargate as a series underwhelms it's fans. Commentaries will frequently hold comments about what they've gotten away with or canon they themselves can't rationalize... they are getting by. But they have this premise, omg, that's so wonderful. And they have characters with fantastic personalities and relationships and actors behind them.
At this point I lump RDA in with the writers and producers in having a great premise and not so much with the living up to potential, but see? I love Jack. In fanfic. On screen I find him wanting, and not in the good slashy sense. The man's been phoning it in for years.
Alias and Firefly and Harry Potter? With the exception of the HP films, none of them underestimate their fans. Most throw in more information than you can possibly process and have such pride in what they're doing that the entertainment is genuinely intellectual, and I would laugh if anyone said that about SG-1 at this point.
But Firefly is no longer the weekly crack it could have been had Fox not cancelled it. We get incredible and satisfying films (plural, we hope) but long wastelands in between. So I begin to read fanfic, not because I think we fans can do it better, but just because we have to fill the void somehow. But Alias and HP I do not feel drawn to the fics, though I will read them if they come highly enough recommended or I adore the author's other work. I've been trained to wait for hiatus to be over, or to double or to deal with Jennifer Garner's busy film shooting schedule. Or wait years between books with a movie or two involving adorable little moppets running about in robes. I'm prepared, I'm okay with the agreement.
Stargate sometimes hits the homerun with a show once or twice a season, but you really never know on a week to week basis. Plus, with the aforementioned lack of time, I tend to watch them when I happen to stumble across a rerun, then for an hour I fall in, then I tumble out on the otherside, already having moved on in my brain to whatever else I should have done in that hour (or 44 minutes or whatever) and sometimes grateful for the brain candy that can be so easily dismissed until you need a little romance or love or angst or action or humor, and then you find a fic that fits the bill in that moment.
I think. I think that's why my fandoms sort themselves as they do. Someone must do right by Sam and Daniel and Jack and Teal'c and Mitchell and Janet, and I'm not so in love with canon that I think the show's official writers have any right to claiming emminent domain. Fanon is not canon, but Gods, sometimes I wish...
And that is my story, and my ode to the beauteous writers of SG-1. How I love thee. How I love thy stories. How I sometimes wish the Bridge Studio people would hire you full time...
Yes. Stopping now. *G*
